clip

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears.
• intransitive verb To make shorter by cutting; trim.
• intransitive verb To cut off the edge of.
• intransitive verb To cut short; curtail.
• intransitive verb To shorten (a word or words) by leaving out letters or syllables.
• intransitive verb To enunciate with clarity and precision.
• intransitive verb Informal To hit with a sharp blow.
• intransitive verb Football To block (an opponent) illegally from the rear.
• intransitive verb Sports To hit or kick (the ball) in a certain direction.
• intransitive verb Slang To cheat, swindle, or rob.
• intransitive verb To cut something.
• intransitive verb Informal To move rapidly.
• noun The act of clipping.
• noun Something clipped off, especially.
• noun The wool shorn at one shearing, as of sheep.
• noun A season's shearing.
• noun A short extract from a movie or television program.
• noun Informal A quick sharp blow.
• noun Football An illegal block from the rear.
• noun Informal A pace or rate.
• noun A single occasion; a time.
• noun A pair of shears or clippers.
• noun Any of various devices for gripping or holding things together; a clasp or fastener.
• noun A piece of jewelry that fastens with a clasp or clip; a brooch.
• noun A cartridge clip.
• transitive verb To fasten with or as if with a clip; hold tightly.
• transitive verb Archaic To embrace or encompass.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An embrace.
• noun A grasp; clasp; grip, as of a machine.
• noun A device for closing a vent in a machine.
• noun In farriery, a projecting flange on the upper surface of a horseshoe, which partially embraces the wall of the hoof.
• noun A metal clasp or confining piece used to connect the parts of a carriage-gear, or to hold the hook of a whipple-tree.
• noun A clasp or spring-holder for letters, papers, etc.
• noun In angling, a salmon-gaff.
• noun Same as cartridge-clip.
• noun Rate of rapid motion, as of horses or yachts: as, a three-mile clip; a fifteen-knot clip.
• To embrace; infold; hug; clasp; grasp; grip.
• To hold together by pressure, as with a spring, screw, or bandage.
• noun The quantity of wool shorn at a single shearing of sheep; a season's shearing.
• noun A blow or stroke with the hand.
• noun plural Shears, especially sheep-shears.
• A dialectal form of clepe.
• To cut off or sever with a sharp instrument, as shears or scissors; trim or make shorter by cutting: as, to clip the hair; to clip a bird's wings.
• To diminish by cutting or paring: as, to clip coin; “clipped silver,”
• To shorten; curtail; cut short; impair by lessening.
• Hence To pronounce (words) in a shortened form, or with abbreviation.
• To cut hair.
• To move swiftly, as a falcon, a horse, or a yacht: often with an indefinite it.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To embrace, hence; to encompass.